Category: Monographs

  • Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 McFarland 2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985] 300 pages 6 x 9 Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4 Larry Koger, Historian Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study…

  • The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content!

  • The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with Coloureds (people of mixed race) or with Indians in that particularly…

  • Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization Palgrave Macmillan May 2011 232 pages ebook ISBN: 9780230305243 Print ISBNs: 9780230298286 HB 9780230318519 DOI: 10.1057/9780230305243 Amar Acheraïou This book offers an accessible, in-depth analysis of hybridity as a practice, discourse, and ideological construction. Its scope ranges widely, encompassing conceptualizations of hybridity from ancient Greece and Rome to the present.…

  • Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History Arcadia Publishing 2002-10-21 160 pages ISBN: 9780738523958 Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History The University of Memphis The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County over its 400 years of recorded history have not only shaped, but been shaped by its landscape. One…

  • Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes University of Massachusetts Press December, 2001 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN (paper):  978-1-55849-310-0 Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History Michigan State University An innovative study of cultural resilience and resistance in early America A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the…

  • Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sánchez was fair-skinned and fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different…

  • This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…

  • Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State University of Manitoba Press November 2008 314 pages 6 × 9 Paper, ISBN: 978-0-88755-734-7 Jennifer Reid, Professor of Religion University of Maine, Farmington Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis, Louis Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian…